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A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.

A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

h. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

ic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

ysical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.

An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.

Partnership in power; equal share of authority. [Obs.] Beauté ne sleighte, strengthe ne hardyness, Ne may with Venus holde champartye. Chaucer.

Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.

A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed. Campbell.

tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

mon salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric speech." Sir W. Raleigh. Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colore…